The United States has adopted 0.08% as the legal limit for drinking for drivers that are aged 21 or older, but drivers that are younger than this are not allowed to operate a vehicle with any level of alcohol in their system.

Observers a century ago saw that alcoholic mothers produced children with significant mental and physical deficiencies.

The cost of the majority of alcohol related disease in the United States is publicly funded by tax payers through government insurance policies like Medicaid.